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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Widow of William Sergeant Kendall, dean of the Yale School of Fine Arts from 1913 to 1922, severe Author Herter lives a retired life at Hot Springs, Va.. far from the fevered world of exhibitions and studios. Although her book stimulates readers to think for themselves, it also shows her grave limitations: lack of contact with, and a prim insensitivity to. the genuine achievements of the movement whose misadvertisement she abhors. Few lovers of art will agree with her acid comments on Grand Old Man Henri Matisse, some of whose recent paintings and drawings, including Rumanian Blouse...
Exposition. In Primitivism in Modern Painting- Fine Arts Instructor Robert...
...confined their writing to official journals, with only Captain Liddell Hart winning both a popular following and the respect of experts. Now wars are again making military commentaries popular. Last week Liddell Hart published Through the Fog of War, contributing little new material, but .including a moving epilogue as fine as anything he has written. People who talk of preventing war are already two years out of date, he says; the second great war of the 20th Century started in 1936; and in Spain, in Central Europe, in the Far East, the powers are maneuvering for strategic positions before delivering...
Powder River is fine folklore material but Struthers Burt skims only the surface...
...universities have to weed out students who regard college as a very fine club, those who mistakenly believe that they are fitted for executive or other intellectual work, and who are actually excellent manual or physical workers (and we by no means underrate or disparage such ability, but such instruction is not the function of a university...